Snooker tournament
The 2018 Paul Hunter Classic was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place in August 2018 at the Stadthalle in Fürth , Germany .[ 1] It was the third ranking event of the 2018/2019 season .[ 1] The tournament is named in honour of former snooker professional, Paul Hunter .[ 2] [ 3]
Michael White was the defending champion, however he lost 1–4 to Zhang Anda in the last 32.
Kyren Wilson won his second ranking tournament, beating Peter Ebdon 4–2 in the final after Ebdon had taken a two-frame lead. Ebdon reached his 18th ranking final at the age of 47 a day before his birthday. It was his first ranking final since 2012. He was the oldest player to reach a ranking event final since 48-year-old Steve Davis reached the final of the 2005 UK Championship .[ 4]
Michael Georgiou made the 140th official maximum break in the third frame of his last 128 match against Umut Dikme. It was Georgiou's first professional maximum break. Later on the same day Jamie Jones made the 141st official maximum break in the third frame of his last 64 match against Lee Walker. It was also Jones' first professional maximum break.
13 year old amateur Ben Mertens made his debut at a professional ranking tournament with a 4–1 win over Adam Stefanow . He then exited the tournament in the second round.
Prize fund
Finalists
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:
Winner: £20,000
Runner up: £10,000
Semifinals: £4,500
Quarterfinals: £3,000
Last 16: £1,725
Last 32: £1,000
Last 64: £600
Total: £100,000
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £20,000, and was split by both Michael Georgiou , in the last 128 round against Umut Dikme, and Jamie Jones in his last 64 match against Lee Walker. This was both players' first maximum break.[ 5]
Main rounds
Played from 24 to 26 August 2018. All matches were the best of 7 frames.
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Finals
Final
Amateur pre-qualifying
These matches were played in Fürth on 22–23 August 2018. All matches were the best of 7 frames.
Round 1
Julian Maschmeier
0–4
Jamie O'Neill
Nirek Kaltenborn
w/d–w/o
Hussam Al-Saffar
Michael Wild
4 –1
Davut Dikme
Johny Moermans
2–4
Antoni Kowalski
Louis Wakelin
2–4
Matthew Glasby
Kevin Van Hove
4 –0
Daniel Schneider
Abdullah Atmar Ghulam Jilani
0–4
Mateusz Baranowski
Callum Beresford
4 –1
Robin Otto
James Cahill
4 –1
Conor Caniff
Michael Heeger
0–4
Patrick Einsle
Luis Chacon
0–4
Luke Pinches
Michael Spooner
0–4
Jack Bradford
Ben Jones
4 –0
Ján Chren
Tomasz Skalski
3–4
Daniel Womersley
Nutcharut Wongharuthai
4 –0
Enes Bakirci
Gert Kempenaers
4 –1
Norbert Hofheinz
Ron Kantor
w/o –w/d
Tyler Rees
Luke Simmonds
4 –0
Luca Kaufmann
Dale Prime
1–4
Aaron Busuttil
Sean Maddocks
4 –1
Joerg Petersen
Nicolai Gebhardt
1–4
Curtis Daher
Umar Ali Shaikh
0–4
Cheung Ka Wai
Sergey Isaenko
4 –1
Stephane Ochoiski
Ryan Davies
4 –0
Shahidul Islam
Karam Fatima
2–4
Philip Ciantar
Zsolt Fenyvesi
1–4
Jurian Heusdens
Soner Sari
4 –0
Georg Schoder
Ronny Buchholz
w/d–w/o
Vetter Luis
Boris Lazarkov
1–4
Horst Bendig
Tan Wang Chooi
3–4
Juergen Kesseler
Ben Mertens
4 –1
Marvin Losi
Pedro Chacon
0–4
Fabian Monnin
Tom Zimmermann
0–4
Dylan Emery
Patrick Whelan
4 –0
Andreas Hartung
Dechawat Poomjaeng
w/d–w/o
Daniel Williams
Daniel Holoyda
4 –2
Fabian Haken
Jamie Curtis-Barrett
0–4
Florian Nüßle
Ng On-yee
4 –0
Paul Thompson
Marcin Nitschke
4 –0
Christian Oehmicke
Matthew Roberts
4 –1
Bernd Strnad
Andrew Pagett
4 –0
Paweł Rogoza
Ralf Guenzel
1–4
Markus Hertle
David Grace
4 –0
John Nicholson
Yun Fung Tam
4 –0
Abid Manzoor
Round 2
George Pragnall
4 –3
Jamie O'Neill
Itaro Santos
4 –1
Hussam Al-Saffar
Loris Lehmann
0–4
Michael Wild
Brian Cini
4 –2
Antoni Kowalski
Barry Pinches
4 –3
Matthew Glasby
Heikki Niva
3–4
Kevin Van Hove
Reggie Edwards
4 –3
Mateusz Baranowski
Oliver Brown
4 –2
Callum Beresford
Thomas Cesal
0–4
Jackson Page
Charlie Walters
2–4
James Cahill
Jenson Kendrick
1–4
Patrick Einsle
Kevin Vandevoort
3–4
Luke Pinches
Bartosz Utkowski
0–4
Jack Bradford
Markus Fischer
0–4
Ben Jones
Achim Belzl
0–4
Andreas Ploner
Alex Taubman
4 –0
Daniel Womersley
Christopher Watts
4 –1
Nutcharut Wongharuthai
Umut Dikme
4 –0
Gert Kempenaers
Regis D'Anna
4 –0
Ron Kantor
Stefan Gerst
0–4
Luke Simmonds
Brian Ochoiski
3–4
Aaron Busuttil
Duncan Bezzina
4 –2
Sean Maddocks
Ebrahim Baghi
2–4
Curtis Daher
Jake Nicholson
4 –0
Cheung Ka Wai
Carl Rosenberger
0–4
Sergey Isaenko
Peter Devlin
3–4
Ryan Davies
Phil O'Kane
w/d–w/o
Philip Ciantar
Billy Ginn
2–4
Jurian Heusdens
Mario-Željo Miloševic
1–4
Soner Sari
Paul Ludden
0–4
Vetter Luis
Sompol Saetang
4 –0
Horst Bendig
Smolka Dietmar
0–4
Juergen Kesseler
Jan Matejícek
0–4
Ben Mertens
Bhavesh Sodha
0–4
Fabian Monnin
Iulian Boiko
4 –2
Brandon Sargeant
Tony Corrigan
1–4
Dylan Emery
Felix Frede
4 –3
Patrick Whelan
David Elahi
0–4
Daniel Williams
Tanja Ender
0–4
Daniel Holoyda
Richard Wienold
0–4
Florian Nüßle
Paul Schopf
2–4
Ng On-yee
Ismail Türker
0–4
Marcin Nitschke
Wayne Brown
4 –1
Matthew Roberts
James Budd
0–4
Andrew Pagett
Thomas Blang
0–4
Markus Hertle
Rolf Mahr
0–4
David Grace
Tom Egger
0–4
Yun Fung Tam
Century breaks
Main rounds centuries
Total: 43
147 – Michael Georgiou
147 – Jamie Jones
144, 125, 116, 104, 101 – Chris Wakelin
143 – Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
141 – Jackson Page
137, 102 – Jack Lisowski
134, 106 – Lee Walker
129 – Eden Sharav
123, 100 – Luca Brecel
120, 111 – Kyren Wilson
115, 103 – Liam Highfield
113, 107 – Scott Donaldson
110 – Peter Ebdon
109, 108, 108 – Zhang Yong
109, 107, 101 – Mark Davis
108 – Gary Wilson
107 – Fergal O'Brien
106, 100 – Rod Lawler
106 – Shaun Murphy
105 – Tom Ford
105 – Noppon Saengkham
104 – Harvey Chandler
104 – Kurt Maflin
102 – Peter Lines
101 – Dominic Dale
101 – Andrew Higginson
101 – Jimmy Robertson
100 – Sam Baird
Amateur pre-qualifying centuries
Total: 6[ 6]
References
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